Shabaab and al Qaeda formally said the two groups have merged. Ayman al Zawahiri announced "the joining of the Shabaab al-Mujahideen Movement in Somalia to Qaedat al-Jihad, to support the jihadi unity against the Zio-Crusader campaign and their assistants amongst the treacherous agent rulers."
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